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xopranaut t1_jb6vj80 wrote
Reply to All the streaming boxes suck now - There are no good streaming boxes, and I blame everybody. by speckz
TLDR: too many ads, too many apps/subscriptions. But it’s not all bad news:
> There are two kinda-sorta exceptions to the rule here: Apple and Nvidia [Shield]
xopranaut t1_jaeevaz wrote
Reply to comment by FastWalkingShortGuy in Pearl I Won from a Jar of Clam-O-Naise by i_is_snoo
Mayonnaise: now with the rich, fishy taste of clams!
xopranaut t1_jae2uqt wrote
Reply to TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time. by AspireAgain
No. “Subjective Age” is a term that was coined to allow the discussion of the fact that many people feel a different age to their actual age. It isn’t the cause of that difference.
xopranaut t1_jae2is9 wrote
Reply to comment by decrementsf in TIL that due to "Subjective Age" most children and adolescents feel older than they really are. But this switches at around 25. By age 30, around 70% of people feel younger than they really are, with the discrepancy between actual age and subjective age growing over time. by AspireAgain
Subjective age is just how old you say you feel, which is often different from your actual age. OP has got cause and effect confused.
xopranaut t1_jaczk4q wrote
Reply to comment by Shitty_Watercolour in Someone beheaded a statue in a Cambridge cemetery by ApacheSnow
Oh my god. That’s made my day!
xopranaut t1_jackgu0 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Someone beheaded a statue in a Cambridge cemetery by ApacheSnow
Her husband must have loved her so much. Thank you for sharing this.
xopranaut t1_jace780 wrote
Phew, I can finally blink.
xopranaut t1_jace1y8 wrote
Why isn’t there a “story must be true” rule?
xopranaut t1_jac0fbq wrote
Why? Are you going to steal the first one?
xopranaut t1_ja8bg1t wrote
Reply to LPT: Heated blanket UNDER the sheets by ScoobyScience
From what you’ve written here, it seems like you might want to read up on the differences between electric over-blankets and electric under-blankets. Hopefully you’re using your as it’s meant to be used.
xopranaut t1_ja6gma3 wrote
Reply to comment by AutoModerator in [WP] After arriving at magic school, it is time for you to meet your spirit animal. Instead of a Lion or a Eagle however, you get… a Capybara. by Important_Ad_3
On the plus side, you wouldn’t need the Sorting Hat to tell you which house you were going to end up in.
xopranaut t1_ja5fydj wrote
Reply to comment by stevenw84 in Has any other TV show dipped in quality and fandom as much as New York Undercover? by stevenw84
Absolutely. It does make you wonder how much bigger a deal stories like yours would have been if social media had been a thing much earlier.
xopranaut t1_ja5f5y9 wrote
Reply to Has any other TV show dipped in quality and fandom as much as New York Undercover? by stevenw84
Did you miss the news about Game of Thrones?
xopranaut t1_ja2xvga wrote
Reply to TIL: Because Nintendo could not get the rights to the Popeye cartoon character, they came up with Mario instead. by A_Bruised_Reed
And Bluto was originally going to be the boss, rather than Donkey Kong!
xopranaut t1_j9v4n6k wrote
Reply to ELI5: Why do we only use 1 and 0 for binary? Could we create a trinary system introducing an extra '2'? by No-Mammoth-1638
Balanced ternary uses 1, 0, and -1. It saw some use in Soviet computers in the 50s, and that page includes some discussion of its complexity versus binary.
xopranaut t1_j8jo80l wrote
Reply to [OC] Which Premier League stadiums have a Fish&Chips shop close enough for you to walk/run to and be back before the 2nd half starts? by F_redrik
That’s why Brentford should never have left Griffin Park.
xopranaut t1_iybgti0 wrote
“I like the frame.”
xopranaut t1_ix7mvut wrote
Reply to A 20 mph speed limit intervention implemented at city centre scale had little impact on short- or long-term outcomes for road traffic collisions, casualties and speed. by _DeanRiding
If you look at table 3, it’s clear that actual speeds in the monitored areas were very rarely much above 20mph before the new limits were introduced, which makes the rest of the observations moot.
xopranaut t1_ix5x3j3 wrote
Reply to comment by coopigeon in [OC] Number of pubs in districts of Austria by coopigeon
Looks like the lesson is if you’re in Vienna, never leave.
xopranaut t1_ix5vjvw wrote
xopranaut t1_iujm7h7 wrote
Reply to This massive burrito I made while high by FerJMV
Your poor girlfriend.
xopranaut t1_iujftym wrote
Reply to Halloween 1989 - My 100% handmade Stegosaurus costume that my grandmother made for me because I was obsessed with dinosaurs by PocketSizedSheHulk
That is a work of art and a labour of love. You look exactly as happy as you should be with such a great costume!
xopranaut t1_iucj3fl wrote
Reply to comment by TheSeventhAnimorph in What happens when TV subtitles/captions are slightly different to what’s being said? by spwf
I never really thought about that! I only noticed it when I was watching a lot of Kung Fu films because some of the dubbed scripts made absolutely no sense until you read the subs instead.
xopranaut t1_iubfof8 wrote
Reply to TIL of WT Stead a pioneering journalist and editor, who led investigations into underage prostitution and Jack The Ripper before eventually dying on the RMS Titanic (whose sinking he had predicted) after giving up his seat in a lifeboat. by NotAGoodDayAhead
What an extraordinary life. Shame that, with so much to choose from, the title here chooses to misrepresent his general concerns about the safety of ocean liners.
xopranaut t1_jbgj7eb wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in All the streaming boxes suck now - There are no good streaming boxes, and I blame everybody. by speckz
Heh, I know the feeling. I drifted from Linux to Apple about 15 years ago and my life got sooo much essier.